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Lovely pic Don... have you considered using a pair of smaller lights at table level, angled up to get a nice solid white background? It's a matter of taste, mostly, but it's something I tended to do a lot.

Anyways, just something I grabbed today, excuse the odd blurred-out vegetation in the slight foreground, this was taken out of the window of a car going 70Mph down a freeway.

Lovely pic Don... have you considered using a pair of smaller lights at table level, angled up to get a nice solid white background? It's a matter of taste, mostly, but it's something I tended to do a lot.

I've actually found that over the past half year or so I'm now leaning towards a gray back ground instead of white... I have a shoot coming up where I will have to use my white backdrop, it'll be interesting to see how I feel about it then.

I've actually found that over the past half year or so I'm now leaning towards a gray back ground instead of white... I have a shoot coming up where I will have to use my white backdrop, it'll be interesting to see how I feel about it then.

Cheers, Don

Like I said, it's often purely a matter of taste. For smaller items that aren't on reflective backgrounds, I always preferred a solid white (or grey or black) with no shadows, but for larger pieces sometimes a small shadow can work to your advantage.

Nice ones Don. Jekostas, that is remarkably sharp for that speed, you must have been using 1/2000s? I made a whole road trip where my goal was 1/1000s, and they generally were much blurrier. Of course, I consider 70 mph slow! That could be my problem.

I haven't been taking many unofficial pictures lately. Wiith the onset on night classes 3 nights a week (even photography and kayaking) my perceived free time for photography and posting is much less. Fortunately I had a backlog.

1 more of my favorite subjects
2 and two new ones
3 & 4 bees and flowers, the second one was actually a RAW file which apparently irfanview can use to some extent.

All with 18-180 lens, I believe. And E-410 of course.

OK, the backlog is worse than I thought. There are quite a few shots good enough for posting. Later maybe.